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Victor Chad Freeze – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is little literature on what community college library deans must do to transform the community college library into an integral part of modern community colleges. Using a qualitative approach, this study examines the roles and responsibilities of an effective leader in a community college library. Semi-structured interviews with six Texas…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Deans, Academic Libraries, Community Colleges
Sarah LeMire; Zhihong Xu; Doug Hahn – College & Research Libraries, 2025
As higher education continues to focus its attention on first-generation college students, academic libraries are increasingly interested in designing outreach and instruction programs to support these students, especially during their first year of college. This study informs these efforts by implementing a standardized test to assess the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Information Literacy
Katherine E. DeVet – Journal of Access Services, 2024
With resource sharing staff staying an average of 3-5 years, capturing policies and procedures to facilitate onboarding and strengthen institutional memory is key in building consistent workflows. Creating documentation was a multi-stage process executed over several years. Initially, the staff supervisor wrote office policies and assigned staff…
Descriptors: Documentation, Shared Resources and Services, Library Personnel, Library Policy
Brea Henson – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This study presents curriculum mapping of noncore course offerings in political science curricula by an early-career librarian. It combines syllabi study and curriculum mapping methods to analyze the language of student learning objectives (SLOs) from course syllabi and to integrate SLOs with threshold concepts from the ACRL Framework for…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Concept Mapping, Curriculum Evaluation
Wiberley, Stephen E., Jr.; Blecic, Deborah D.; De Groote, Sandra L.; Shultz, Mary – College & Research Libraries, 2023
This study adds to a series investigating the publication patterns of refereed articles in Library and Information Science (LIS) journals by United States academic librarians (USALs). The first study covered 1993-97, and subsequent studies continued in five-year increments. This study presents data and metrics for 2013-17 from fifty-two journals:…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Publications, Faculty Publishing
Michael E. Beck – Community College Enterprise, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to illustrate the experiences of transfer students interacting with community college librarians for instruction and research assistance. This research study was guided by one research question: (RQ1) How do transfer students at community colleges who frequently meet with their community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Libraries, Librarians, College Students
Venner, Mary Ann; Washburn, Jenn – Journal of Access Services, 2021
The role of the student worker is expanding in academic libraries. Their unique perspectives add valuable insights to the design and delivery of library services, project development, outreach activities, and operational planning. Student-workers gain internal and external benefits from working in peer-to-peer learning environments which also…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Academic Libraries, Student Employment, College Students
Shin, Yumi; Shelton, Kaye – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
The purpose of this phenomenological narrative study was to investigate the perceptions of academic librarians in Texas regarding their experiences with leadership development. The participants in the study were 10 librarians who had varying levels of library leadership experiences. Interviews were conducted face-to-face or virtually, with…
Descriptors: Librarian Attitudes, Librarians, Academic Libraries, Library Administration
Dennis, Sarah; Hartnett, Eric – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2022
It is difficult for libraries to keep track of resource accessibility when libraries often subscribe to thousands of resources. One means for recording a resource's accessibility is the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT). Completed by the product vendor, a VPAT documents whether the resource does or does not support accessibility over…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Accessibility (for Disabled), Electronic Libraries, Evaluation Methods
Kogut, Ashlynn – Communications in Information Literacy, 2021
Whether formally articulated or tacitly held, all librarians have beliefs about how undergraduate students learn. Framing learning beliefs as a component of a teaching philosophy, this study explored how librarians described how undergraduate students learned best. Thirteen librarians from three doctoral universities in Texas were interviewed.…
Descriptors: Librarians, Academic Libraries, Undergraduate Students, Librarian Attitudes
Hwang, Soo-Yeon; Elkins, Susan; Hanson, Michael; Shotwell, Trent; Thompson, Molly – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2020
Promoting an institutional repository (IR) to both faculty and end-users can be challenging. We surveyed academic libraries with an IR in Texas, and asked both library administrators and IR managers about their efforts to promote and grow their IR in both size and downloads. In addition, we studied the websites of Association of Research Libraries…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, College Faculty, Academic Libraries, Library Personnel
Stephens, Jane; Hubbard, David E.; Neville, Bruce D.; Melgoza, Pauline – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Engineering librarians at Texas A&M University in College Station partnered with the university's College of Engineering to provide information assistance to students participating in Aggies Invent, a series of 48-hour design competitions conducted in the college's makerspace. To assess the impact of librarian-student consultations, the…
Descriptors: Use Studies, Librarians, Expertise, Design
Kogut, Ashlynn; Ramirez, Diana; Foster, Margaret J. – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2022
Education librarians are receiving an increasing number of requests to help researchers with systematic reviews. Systematic reviews are evidence syntheses that require comprehensive, reproducible search strategies. Many of the available training programs and materials focus on systematic reviews in the health sciences, not education or the social…
Descriptors: Librarians, Literature Reviews, Social Sciences, Library Education
Rowe, Jennifer; Leuzinger, Julie; Hargis, Carol; Harker, Karen R. – College & Research Libraries, 2021
During a four-year period, librarians collected student data by card-swiping undergraduate students who attended one of the core English composition class-based one-shot instruction sessions provided at a large state-supported doctoral-granting university. Data for students who attended library instruction was anonymized and compared to the same…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Academic Libraries, Academic Achievement
Kenneth L. Carriveau – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to plan for, design, and launch the initial development phase of an affordable course materials initiative within the library at one Texas private four-year university. More specifically, the focus of the study centered on providing interested, volunteering academic faculty with the tools, resources, and expertise…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Open Educational Resources, Private Colleges, Library Services